Student Power
Have you ever felt oppressed by a teacher or a professor? Freire conveys a message to students to use their power while maximizing it and as well as presenting new ideas to teachers and other students. West Chester students can use their powers in many different ways. One main component of student power is that for a movement to be successful, the student will need each other, therefore, with the power of many students the results are inevitable. One thing every student can agree on is that teachers are sometimes very wrong in what they say. There have been some experiences on campus that the teacher gives students tests that have nothing to do with the past lesson plan. In Paul Freire’s, “The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education” he clearly points that in all circumstance’s teachers are like oppressors and students are the ones oppressed. At West Chester University students can use their power by boycotting professors by boycotting to take the test.
In Freire, his goal is for students to understand their power and how to use it effectively. In, The Banking Concept of Education, the author, Paul Freire denotes, “Those truly committed to liberation must reject the banking concept in its entirety, adopting instead a concept of women and men as conscious beings, and consciousness as consciousness intent upon the world.” (pg. 4) So if all the students stopped going to class all at once, the attention would turn on the faculty. Instead of it being the student’s fault of not showing up to class, the school would investigate the class itself. Therefore, this supports the notion of Paul Freire that students working together to use their power can greatly impact the situation. Essentially with common goals, students can use their power to stand up for unfair tests.
Another way students can show their power is by boycotting certain places on the campus. For example, students can boycott Lawrence dining hall for having food that is bad for you. Freire describes that students are the core of the institution and that they keep the institution running. Freire states that “To resolve the teacher-student contradiction, to exchange the role of depositor, prescriber, domesticator, for the role of student among students would be to undermine the power of oppression and serve the cause of liberation.” (pg. 2). Students usually undermine their power because they are constantly being oppressed but with the help of other students. Students can recognize their strengths and therefore standup for unfair testing.
Enclosure every student needs to recognize their power and how to maximize it effectively. Therefore, in different ways, students can have themselves heard and their problems solved. Some might say the teachers are still more powerful because they are the ones who teach and have a direct connection with the institution but in fact, students are the ones who are essential for the teachers and institutions because they indirectly need them. Freire analytically describes education by describing teachers as oppressors. So basically he states that if students are able to recognize their strength then their voice will be heard.
Adam has an overall strong thesis that is going to propel his writing into something great. He describes the relationship between teachers and students, that teachers are the oppressors and the students are the oppressed. He describes that the teachers are at fault for falling into a routine of spouting information that can unfold into students being ill-prepared for exams. He then dives into how students continue this problem by believing they are left to do nothing, when they can have just as much power than the professors. Other than a few grammatical and sentence errors, Adams project seems to be on the right path to success.